Role and responsibilities
- Project management – carry out project management related tasks such as project planning, risk management, issue management, coordination, manage deliverables and report to hierarchy on the progress made.
- Stakeholder management – identify and manage different stakeholders either internal or external to Commission when managing the different initiatives carried out by the OSPO
- Presentation and reporting – capacity to produce presentations, reports and speak in public if needed
- Service management – implement/define services around some of the initiatives currently being run by 2 the OSPO (code.europa.eu, Open Source Labs, etc.) with the objective of including them in the DIGIT Service Catalogue, and potentially taking ownership of some of them.
- Process improvement - identify, propose and implement improvement plans for the OSPO in terms of business processes and support
- KPIs definition – assist in defining and implementing indicators to measure the progress done by the OSPO across the different areas the team is responsible for
- Requirements definition - capability to formulate in a clear and comprehensive manner functional and non-functional requirements. Occasionally, the Expert Product Owner might also be involved in the following tasks:
- Community management – handle and manage requests from the different communities
- Support – provide business/technical support on open-source related matters when appropriate (e.g. business customers, collaboration with other teams, etc), for example on code.europa.eu and/or open source labs
- Advise - Advising internal projects on the aspects of open source, including helping them on becoming open source.
- Experience managing large project/services, coupled with experience with large stakeholders’ community groups at EU scale
- Experience with open source is considered a must
- Demonstrated experience with project management tool: JIRA and Ms Project
- Demonstrated experience in project managing project core teams of at least 10 FTEs
- Certified in Project Management Methodologies: PM2 or PMP or Prince2 or similar
- Certified in Agile methodology: Agile@EC or Scrum or Kanban or similar
